When you buy and sell a stock within the same day, it is called Intraday
Trading. When you purchase shares and hold them overnight, then you take
delivery of the shares and hence, this is called Delivery Trading.
The brokerage for intraday trading is always lower than that for delivery trading.
You can trade in two different ways in
share markets. You can either do intraday trading or you can opt for delivery
based trading (investment). Intraday trading is typically completed within a
day – this means that you have to sell the shares that you have purchased on
that day before the closing of markets. Even if you don’t sell the shares by
yourself, they are automatically squared off before the closing. On the other
hand, in delivery based investments, you are not required to buy and sell
shares within a day and you can hold them for as long as you want.
Advantages
There are quite a few advantages of
Intraday Trading, the biggest one being that you are allowed to buy shares
without paying the full price of the shares (Paying only the margin money). The
market makers allow you pay only a part of the price to hold the shares. So,
you can gain more by investing less. But this means that your losses would be
higher as well. Intraday trading also allows you to
short sell the shares – selling shares even before buying them (but buying
before market closes). This is one benefit that can give you profit even when
the price of the share is sure to fall. Advantages
The brokerage for intraday trading is always lower than that for delivery trading.